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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The name isn’t the problem. It was that the mast had to be the tallest single mast in the world. [/quote]

It wasn’t rigged for sail while sitting at anchor, so I don’t understand why you think that is somehow damning.

So it’s the tallest sloop ever made. Ok? And?

It’s basically a scaled-up design, so nothing about it is exactly bleeding edge design. I would argue the retractable keel, assuming it’s retracted while at anchor, which it probably is, is more at-fault than the mast.  [/quote]

Even with sails down the mast and huge boom might have contributed to this boat reaching its tipping point and unable to reset [/quote]

I can tell you don’t understand much about boats, but every vessel has a roll limit where past that point , it will capsize. Very few boats are designed to be self-righting after a roll, most will stay capsized after they go over, so it’s doubtful that even had the water been deep enough for the mast to not have struck the seabed, it almost certainly would not have self righted after the roll.

So none of this would’ve mattered. 
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I’m reading online that yacht experts think the mast size may have contributed. They’re all wrong but you’re right? [/quote]

PP does not know.  But neither do the "experts" speaking out.  I would not believe at all what they are saying at this point --- in six months to a year with more info, maybe.[/quote]

Sure, fair enough. We won’t know until we know. But to say that there is no way the mast size was a potential contributing design flaw that factored in here is obviously not accurate given that very issue is being discussed by people who do know something about blue water crafts [/quote]

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